Lew Allen Award

Lew Allen Award for Excellence is a medal of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Established in 1986 as the ''Director’s Research Achievement Award;'' it was then renamed in honor of JPL's Director Lew Allen when he retired in 1990. This award recognises significant accomplishments or leadership early in an individual's professional career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Lew Allen Award for Excellence Recipients

* 1990
** Robert W. Fathauer and True-Lon Lin
** Randall R. Friedl
** Brian D. Hunt
** William R. McGrath
* 1991
** Michael H. Hecht
** Kevin J. Hussey
** Randy D. May
** David P. Miller
* 1992
** Lloyd D. Bell II
** Edward T. Chow
** James L. Fanson
** Eric R. Fossum
* 1993
** Pierre F. Baldi
** Usama M. Fayayad
** Seth R. Marder
** Patrick J. Smyth
* 1994
** Rajiv S. Desai
** Sarath Gunapala
** David C. Redding
* 1995
** Steve A. Chien
** George A. Hajj
** Michael E. Hoenk
** Gloria L. Manney
* 1996
** Yi Chao
** Alexander S. Konopliv
** W. Thomas Pike
* 1997
** Shouleh Nikzad
** Bedabrata Pain
** Paul Stolorz
* 1998
** Michael E. Ressler
** Eric J. Rignot
** Simon H. Yueh
* 1999
** James Bock
** Son van Nghiem
** Adrian Stoica
* 2000
** Richard Dekany
** Andrea Donnellan
** Sabrina M. Grannan (Feldman)
* 2001
** Ayanna Howard
** Ian Joughin
** Victoria S. Meadows
** Juergen Mueller
* 2002
** Serge Dubovitsky
** Andrew Edie Johnson
** Dmitry Strekalov
* 2003
** Jennifer Dooley
** Christophe Dumas
** Eui-Hyeok Yang
* 2004
** Andrey Matsko
** Alina Moussessian
** Charles Norton
** Michael Seiffert
* 2005
** Daniel Stern (aka Stevens)
** Linda del Castillo
** Lorene Samoska
* 2006
** Amanda Hendrix
** Harish Manohara
** Adrian Ponce
* 2007
** Jason Rhodes
** Paul Johnson
* 2008
** Pekka Kangaslahti
** Ioannis Mikellides
** Hui Su
** Kiri Wagstaff
* 2009
** Charles Matt Bradford
** Cory Hill
** Jeffrey Norris
** Josh Willis
* 2010
** Shannon Brown
** Julie Castillo-Rogez
** Amy Mainzer
** Nathan Strange
* 2011
** Ken Cooper
** Kevin Hand
** Richard Hofer
** Eric Larour
* 2012
** Marina Brozović
** Ian Clark
** Baris Erkmen
** Christian Frankenberg
* 2013
** Abigail Allwood
** Carmen Boening
** Michael Mischna
** David Thompson
* 2014
** Rodney Anderson
** Michelle Gierach
** Robert Hodyss
** Aaron Parness, ''for development of new climbing robots and robotic grippers with widespread application to space and terrestrial exploration''
* 2015
** Darmindra Arumugam, ''for inventing and developing Active and Passive Magneto-Quasi-Static Positioning for long-range near-field positioning for non-line of sight environments''
** Sabah Bux, ''for leadership in the development of novel high performance high temperature nanocomposite bulk thermoelectric materials using advanced synthetic methods''
** Damon Landau, ''for innovation in mission architecting and mission design, and for leadership and creativity in the development of advanced mission concepts''
** Jason Williams, ''for innovative research in ultra-cold atoms, atom interferometry, and fundamental physics''
* 2016
** Mathieu Choukroun, ''for pioneering studies of the physical properties of cryogenic materials and contributions to MIRO and the US Rosetta mission''
** Andrew Klesh, ''for technical leadership of deep space smallsats and under-ice robotic rover technologies in support of terrestrial and outer planets exploration''
** Boon Lim, ''for leadership and technological innovation in the emerging field of microwave remote sensing science on nanosatellites''
** David Wiese, ''for exceptional leadership and research roles in GRACE data processing and Earth gravity science''
* 2017
** Piyush Agram, ''for major contributions to InSAR-based geodetic imaging and geophysical time series analysis''
** Nacer Chahat, ''for demonstrated unique talent as a leader in rapid spacecraft antenna development and telecom systems engineering for CubeSats''
** Arezou Khoshakhlagh, ''for technical innovation in developing the novel Gallium-free antimonides superlattice epitaxial material system for advanced mid-wavelength and long-wavelength infrared detectors''
** Sylvain Piqueux, ''for leadership in the study of surface thermal properties of terrestrial worlds, and support of JPL missions to these bodies''
* 2018
** Laura Barge, ''for pioneering research on the application of electrochemistry to studies of the origin and emergence of life''.
** Alex Gardner, ''for establishing a new unified system architecture to process Cryosphere data, leading to new scientific discoveries related to the evolution of polar ice caps''.
** Cecile Jung-Kubiak, ''for demonstrated excellence in the development of innovative silicon micromachining techniques that have enabled novel electromagnetic, mechanical, and propulsion devices.
** Jose Siles, ''for the development of high-power ultra-compact room-temperature multi-pixel terahertz sources and receivers for balloon-borne and space instruments''.
* 2019
** Davide Farnocchia, ''for exceptional leadership and research roles in orbit reconstruction and prediction of asteroids and comets''.
** Marco Lavalle, ''for sustained leadership in creating and advancing new Earth-science applications of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar''.
** Joseph Masiero, ''for his work in establishing the physical properties of near-Earth asteroids and the threats they pose to Earth''.
** Maria Fernanda Mora, ''for excellence in the development and validation of chemical analysis methodology and electrophoresis instruments for future life detection missions''.
* 2020
** Brian Bue, ''For exceptional contributions to machine-learning for remote sensing systems.''
** Morgan Cable, ''For exceptional contributions to our understanding of chemistry on Titan’s surface.''
** Benjamin Hamlington, ''For exceptional contributions to understanding sea level change.''
** Sidharth Misra, ''For exceptional contributions to digital microwave radiometry.''
* 2021
** Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi (Ali Agha), ''For exceptional leadership and technological innovation in the emerging field of AI in support of autonomous exploration of extreme terrains.''
** Emmanuel Decrossas, ''For outstanding leadership and technological innovation advancing the field of low frequency antenna simulation and measurements.''
** Jonathan Hobbs, ''For outstanding accomplishments in research and development of uncertainty quantification approaches for atmospheric retrievals.''
** Laura Kerber, ''For exceptional scientific leadership and research on the geology and geophysics of the terrestrial planets and of the Moon.''

See also

* List of space technology awards
* List of awards named after people

References

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